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More Pecker (that's what she said!)...

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"After Trump announced his candidacy, Pecker's contact with Cohen increased. Contact at a minimum of every week and if there was something going on, even more."

 

Pecker: When Mr Trump launched the Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice, “the interest in Mr. Trump through my magazines, basically the national enquirer, skyrocketed.”

 

(prosecution is establishing that email addresses did indeed belong to him and Cohen) 

 

"The August 2015 Trump Tower Meeting: Trump, Hope Hicks, Michael Cohen and Pecker were present. Hicks came in and out of the meeting. Cohen said that "The Boss" wanted to see Pecker. Cohen would refer to Trump as "The Boss." Most of the time I received a call from Cohen it was b/c he wanted something."

 

LOL @ the bold lol...that'll be all over the interwebs soon.

Pecker testimony...

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"Court is back in session. Let's see if Merchan rules from the bench on the contempt motion before bringing the jury back in." 

 

"Ok so the jury is coming back into the courtroom. David Pecker has resumed his place in the witness stand."

 

"Pecker: "I have had a great relationship with Mr. Trump over the years." He recounts his longtime business relationship, starting with an idea for a magazine called Trump Style."

(talking about Pecker buying the National Enquirer, Trump being a close friend, Trump sending Pecker (heh) the ratings for The Apprentice so he could print them in the National Inquirer, etc.)

 

"Pecker was introduced to Cohen in 2007 by Trump. Trump said that Cohen had "done a lot of great things for me" and Trump said that all contact should go through Michael Cohen from now on. If there were any rumors in the marketplace about Trump and his family, that Pecker should let Cohen know."

6 minutes ago, China said:

Reserve decision?  WTF is he waiting for?  The more time he takes, the more time Trump has to intimidate witnesses and the jury.  BS.

 

 

To that point lol:

"So at 11:00 a.m. ET, Trump posts on Truth Social calling Judge Merchan's courtroom a "kangaroo court" and calling on Merchan to recuse himself. Trump also assails the gag order, (falsely) claiming that he cannot defend himself.

This while we await a ruling from Judge Merchan on Trump's 10 violations of the gag order..."

"Merchan says he's going to "reserve decision on this," after brutal arguments for the defense."

Trump supporters on Twitter are not handling the judge's comments too well lol...

2 minutes ago, @DCGoldPants said:

Can't the prosecution use anything he says in the hallway during the trial against him DURING the trial?

I was wondering that, too...or at least, wondering if the prosecutors did indeed use that stuff but it wasn't posted on twitter.

Merchan's getting snarky lol...

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Now, Merchan asks Blanche (if this is) what Jesse Watters, in fact, said. 

 

Blanche: No. 

 

Merchan: "So your client manipulated what was said and put it in quotes? 

 

Blanche: I wouldn't say it was a manipulation.  

 

Merchan: This isn't a repost at all. Your client had to type it out. Use the shift-key and all.

Yikes...might have been wrong earlier--judge is being pretty direct here:

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Merchan: Do you have any caselaw you want to hand up or any other arguments you'd like to make? 

 

Blanche: This gag order: we are trying to comply with it. There is no doubt that Trump is being very careful with your Honor's Order. 

 

Merchan: You are losing all credibility with the court, I have to tell you right now. Is there anything else you want to tell the court? 

 

Katie's Sidebar: It is never a good day for a lawyer if the judge presiding over your jury trial tells you that you are losing all credibility with the court. You don't ever want to trash your reputation or lose your credibility over a case or client or a client's position.

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Katie's Sidebar: Todd Blanche is struggling to respond to Judge Merchan. Trump sits there with a frown on his face. 

 

Blanche argues that the People aren't claiming that Trump violates the gag order each time he reposts. 

 

Merchan responds that just b/c the People don't seek to hold Trump in contempt for each violation doesn't mean that he hasn't violated the court order.  

 

Merchan: What is your caselaw that supports your position that your client can repost and that doesn't violate the gag order? 

 

Blanche: I don't have any cases. It's just common sense. 

 

Katie's Sidebar: DON'T do this in court. 

 

Merchan: Reposting is not passive conduct. Someone had to do something.

Now Blanche is talking...

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Now, Blanche gets up for Trump and argues that Trump knows what the gag order says and nothing that he posted violated the gag order.

 

Blanche: Trump's repost regarding Avenatti's comments on the gag order's hypocrisy - Michael Cohen responded directly to Avenatti's tweet and he did so politically and not about the trial. Trump is allowed to respond to political attacks. 

 

Judge Merchan: Please provide the timeline for these posts. Cohen's post was at 9:21 and that precedes Avenatti's post which was at 10:07, correct?

 

Blanche: Yes.

 

Merchan: So your position is that Trump's repost is political b/c Cohen references a pardon? 

 

Merchan: You believe that everything Avenatti said does not relate to the trial? But the word "pardon" by Cohen makes it political and authorizes your client to respond?

 

Blanche: Yes. 

 

MERCHAN: “Have you spoken with Mr. Avenatti about what he means [in his tweet]?”

 

BLANCHE: “No, of course not.”

 

MERCHAN: Then how can you interpret what he believes?

Contempt update...doesn't seem like a very strong argument, unfortunately:

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Judge Merchan asks the Prosecution: what is the connection between the posts and the gag order's language about "making public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation...in this criminal proceeding"?

 

Prosecution: What Fox News Jesse Watters' said on tv about the prospective jurors/jurors versus what Trump posted are different in that Trump's Truth Social post was slightly modified in a way and it violates the gag order.

 

Trump posted the following: "They're catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge just to get on the Trump jury." According to the prosecutor, Watters did NOT say this; Watters only said, "They're catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge."

 

Prosecutor: There's no doubt that the Defendant made these posts. Defendant took what Jesse Watters said and added to it 40 minutes after Watters said part of the statement. It shows careful deliberation and willfulness in making the Truth Social post.

 

ADA Conroy: “Throwing a ‘MAGA’ into a post doesn’t make it political. It may make it more ominous.”

EDITED to add in an additional comment.

Twitter appears to be ****ing up right now...

Also, here's a screenshot of the graphic from that video showing where each of the jurors get their news--I had not seen this before, so posting it in case anyone else had not seen it, either:

This had some interesting info and takes:

And just for comparison sake lol...

Last Tuesday:

Today:

21 minutes ago, tshile said:

I wasn’t talking about the two ways of sharing, and I don’t necessarily disagree with you

 

i guess I was thinking more - share stuff that’s interesting not every sentence. 
 

but that’s just how I am about things 🤷‍♂️ 

(Insert "Bro, it's a suggestion" handshake gif here, if one exists)

Seems reasonable...I wasn't sure what would be the interesting parts so I went with everything lol...

1 minute ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

To be clear, I'm not authorized to make deals here. I was just making a suggestion. 

I couldn't find a gif that said "Bro, it's a suggestion" though...

2 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

How about putting the text in a quote box? Then we don't get a wall of text. I think that's a fair compromise. 

Yeah, I wouldn't trust Trump having access to the bond account, either...that would be stupidity at its finest.

4 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

I agree. There are Twitter threads linked for that.

Not everyone has a Twitter account, and you need one now to read the tweets last I remember.

Not everyone even wants to visit Twitter even if they could read the tweets without having an account.

There's next to no difference between posting the tweet with the text, or just posting the text outside of just posting the text is MUCH easier to follow.

Trial is over for today...Pecker was just in and out before they adjourned.

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"The People call David Pecker.""

 

 

"Pecker is 72 years old and married for 36 years."

 

"[The jurors have now been given a notepad and a pen to take notes.]"

 

 

 

"Pecker worked at AMI from March 1999 through August of 2020."

 

"(Trump appears to be more attentive now. He is looking at Pecker as he testifies.) Pecker tells the jury that he used "checkbook journalism" so he paid for stories and the editors couldn't pay more than $10K for a story. If more than that, it had to be vetted for approval."

 

"Pecker had final say on whether a story was published or not."

"Blanche: Stormy has made hundreds of thousands of dollars for her story about her affair with Trump. She has written a book. She owes Trump $600K as a result of her legal cases against Trump. "This is important: Ms. Daniels doesn't have any idea about the charged 34 counts in this case. She has no idea what Cohen wrote on the invoice. No idea how it was booked at Trump Tower. No idea about the checks. Her testimony, while salacious, doesn't matter."

"Blanche: "Please listen to the evidence. Use your common sense. We're New Yorkers. That's why we're here."

"10-minute recess now that Blanche is done with Opening."